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 Security & Privacy Conference Timeline

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Latest News

2026-05-19: Our paper with Ibtihal and Helen on British users' perception, use, and concerns about authentication systems is accepted to HAISA 2026. See: ePrint, Conference Homepage

2026-03-10: Our paper, led by Charles and Karl, on multi-instance unrecoverability of iMHF-based password hashing, is accepted to ESORICS 2026. See: ePrint, Conference Homepage

2026-01-15: Our paper, led by Paddy and Eva, on participatory auditing of predictive AI, is accepted to CHI 2026. See: ePrint, Conference Homepage

Older:  News archive

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Selected Recent Publications

[QWGS25] Aunam Quyoum, Mark Wong, Sebati Ghosh and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Minoritised Ethnic People’s Security and Privacy Concerns and Responses towards Essential Online Services". SOUPS 2025: 259–278, USENIX, 2025.
 ePrint |  Open Proceedings Version |  Presentation |  BibTeX

[BAS25] Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool". ICBC 2025, IEEE, 2025.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  Dataset |  Slides |  Best Paper Award |  BibTeX

[CBS24] Ali Cherry, Konstantinos Barmpis and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "The Emperor is Now Clothed: A Secure Governance Framework for Web User Authentication through Password Managers". ICICS 2024, LNCS 15057: 233–252, Springer, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  BibTeX

 Full Publication List

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Selected Recent Funded Projects

PRIME: Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online
PHAWM: Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies

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Current Team

Research Associates:
Sebati Ghosh (on PRIME and CHEDDAR)
Marios Aristodemou (on PHAWM)

Research Students:
Ibtihal Alotaibi (PhD, with  Helen Petrie)
Henry Gray (PhD, with  Roberto Metere)
Christian Ndubisi (MScR, with Poonam Yadav)

 Full Team List (including alumni and information for prospective students)

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Teaching

Current Module: Cryptography Theory and Practice (  CTAP-H /  CTAP-M )

 Full Teaching List

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Selected Academic Service

Program Committee (current):

University Service (current):
 Co-Chair, Physical Sciences Ethics Committee
 Member, Information Security Board
 Member, Academic Ethics Compliance Committee

Departmental Service (selected, current):
 Lead, Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
 Deputy Chair, Graduate School Board

 Full Academic Service List

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